Language information by source

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

4

Native speakers worldwide

SEMI SPEAKERS

6-8

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There are four speakers who are currently actively involved in efforts to preserve and teach Ayapanec Gulf Zoquean and perhaps 6-8 more residents of Ayapa who spoke the language as children and could be considered semi-speakers or rememberers. The story about "the last two speakers who do not speak to each other" is a powerful narrative but one that was never true. Alas it continues to circulate in spite of efforts by me and Mexico's National Institute of Indigenous Languages to dispel it.

Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

2015

Personal Communication on Ayapanec Zoque

Daniel Suslak

4

1-9

There are four speakers who are currently actively involved in efforts to preserve and teach Ayapanec Gulf Zoquean and perhaps 6-8 more residents of Ayapa who spoke the language as children and could be considered semi-speakers or rememberers. The story about "the last two speakers who do not speak to each other" is a powerful narrative but one that was never true. Alas it continues to circulate in spite of efforts by me and Mexico's National Institute of Indigenous Languages to dispel it.

6-8

Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Mexico

Ayapa, Jalpa de Méndez, Tabasco

18.223405, -93.111446

2007

Meso-America

Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages

197-209

Christopher Moseley

London and New York: Routledge

William Adelaar and J. Diego Quesada

Adelaar, William and J. Diego Quesada. 2007. "Meso-America." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by Christopher Moseley. 197-209. London and New York: Routledge.

~40

1991

10-99

(Garza Cuarón and Lastra 1991; Wichmann 1995).

Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)